Thanks for the patch.
Allen Li writes:
> Example Org file:
>
> * Parent :foo:bar:baz:
> ** Child :foo:bar:spam:
>
> Invoking org-set-tags-command with point on Child prepopulates the
> minibuffer prompt with only the tags :spam:
>
> This is because org-get-tags doesn't distinguish between inherited only
> tags and inherited tags which are also explicitly set on a heading, so
> org-set-tags-command treats :foo:bar: as inherited only rather than also
> set locally on the heading.
>
> This is undesirable because having tags set directly on a heading has
> different semantics even if they are also inherited (e.g., the TAGS
> special property, or when headings will be refiled to a different
> location later).
I agree, that's undesirable and likely unintended.
> Subject: [PATCH] org.el: Don't exclude local tags that are also inherited
>
> * lisp/org.el (org-set-tags-command): Don't exclude local tags even if
> inherited.
> ---
> lisp/org.el | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
It'd be good to add something along the lines of your example as a case
in test-org/set-tags-command.
> diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
> index fb95590fc..49d7d24f2 100644
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -11880,9 +11880,7 @@ in Lisp code use `org-set-tags' instead."
> (org-global-tags-completion-table
> (org-agenda-files)))
> (or org-current-tag-alist (org-get-buffer-tags)))))
> - (current-tags
> - (cl-remove-if (lambda (tag) (get-text-property 0 'inherited
> tag))
> - all-tags))
> + (current-tags (org-get-tags nil t))
> (inherited-tags
> (cl-remove-if-not (lambda (tag) (get-text-property 0 'inherited
> tag))
> all-tags))
That looks good as far as fixing the misbehavior you report. I wonder
though whether there's a deeper org-get-tags issue here worth
considering. Its documentation says
... the returned list of tags contains tags in this order: file
tags, tags inherited from parent headlines, local tags.
But it's not specified what happens when a tag is both local and
inherited. The current implementation drops the local tag variant
through its delete-dups call:
(delete-dups
(append (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags) ltags))
I would have expected the local tag to get priority here. If that were
the case (e.g., something like below), that would also solve the issue
you describe.
Thoughts?
-- >8 --
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index fb95590fc..3dac42b7b 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -12310,8 +12310,10 @@ (defun org-get-tags (&optional pos local)
(org--get-local-tags))
itags)))
(setq itags (append org-file-tags itags))
- (delete-dups
- (append (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags) ltags))))))))
+ (nreverse
+ (delete-dups
+ (nreverse (nconc (org-remove-uninherited-tags itags)
+ ltags))))))))))
(defun org-get-buffer-tags ()
"Get a table of all tags used in the buffer, for completion."
